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Today is going to be a Tuesday. I can tell. The sun shone while I was on the bus, rain fell while I waited 17 minutes for a Dart due 5 minutes before I got to the station, sun shone again while I was on the Dart, only to start to rain again between Dun Laoghaire station and work. And now that I'm inside, sunshine again. In addition to which, the only seat on the bus was beside a mildly crazy gentleman who keep singing the National Anthem under his breath, and getting the words wrong. "Soliders are we, whose lives are pledged to Ireland, sun will shine, in a land beyond the waves..." over and over and over.

Amphetadesk

I've been using Amphetadesk as a news aggregator for the last few weeks. Today, while poking at it, I came up with a few ideas and mailed them to the guy who makes it - Morbus Iff - fully expecting them to vanish into the ether. A few minutes later, I got a mail back saying that two of my ideas were going to be in the upcoming new release, and that the third would be as well, and he attached a new template file with a way to do it already. That's service, so y'all go and download Amphetadesk now.

What it does: It fetches the XML RSS feed from a wide variety of sites, and puts it all in one file on your desktop, downloading fresh material up to once an hour, whenever you're online. Cuts down the clicking through lots of weblogs and news sites to reading one local file, and clicking through if you want more information.

Morbus also runs gamegrene.com, an excellent gaming site. Is there nothing the man can't do right?